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Description
An Oriental classic retold by a Nobel Prize winner, with modern illustrations. An early Helan-period (794-1185) prose work about a supernatural being found by a bamboo cutter and brought up as his daughter. Text is presented in bilingual Japanese-English format alongside original, full-color... read more
First Sentence
Many years ago there lived a man they called the Old Bamboo Cutter.
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Authors & Contributors
Other Contributors:
- Yasunari Kawabata (Adapter)
- Donald Keene (Translator)
- Masayuki Miyata (Artist)
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